Comments on: Leader Standard work – A bite a day keeps audit away! http://viveknaik.net/lean-philosophy/my-learnings/leader-standard-work-a-bite-a-day-keeps-audit-away/ A journey transforming people and proceses at a small manufacturing company! Wed, 16 May 2012 01:32:10 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Robert http://viveknaik.net/lean-philosophy/my-learnings/leader-standard-work-a-bite-a-day-keeps-audit-away/comment-page-1/#comment-23 Robert Thu, 19 Nov 2009 04:02:49 +0000 http://viveknaik.net/?p=82#comment-23 Wow! This is quite exciting to think of eventually doing away with time consuming audits by performing them in small bites on a daily baisis via gemba walks. I very much like this concept. Robert Wow! This is quite exciting to think of eventually doing away with time consuming audits by performing them in small bites on a daily baisis via gemba walks. I very much like this concept.

Robert

]]> By: Vivek Naik http://viveknaik.net/lean-philosophy/my-learnings/leader-standard-work-a-bite-a-day-keeps-audit-away/comment-page-1/#comment-20 Vivek Naik Thu, 12 Nov 2009 04:00:32 +0000 http://viveknaik.net/?p=82#comment-20 Hi Mark, Thanks for the input, Oh yes I do read your blog :), can relate it to many realities on the shop floor. That is so true about the checking the for Continuous Improvement, without understanding it we could be building a culture of creatively hiding problems rather than solving it right then. Hoping to read more your interesting posts and your insights. Vivek Hi Mark,
Thanks for the input, Oh yes I do read your blog :) , can relate it to many realities on the shop floor.
That is so true about the checking the for Continuous Improvement, without understanding it we could be building a culture of creatively hiding problems rather than solving it right then.
Hoping to read more your interesting posts and your insights.

Vivek

]]> By: Mark Rosenthal http://viveknaik.net/lean-philosophy/my-learnings/leader-standard-work-a-bite-a-day-keeps-audit-away/comment-page-1/#comment-19 Mark Rosenthal Wed, 11 Nov 2009 06:27:40 +0000 http://viveknaik.net/?p=82#comment-19 Right on! The whole idea is to build the checks into the work itself, and get to the point where it is self-auditing - any problem is immediately flagged and triggers a response. That, in turn, takes the leader standard work to another level. Instead of checking compliance with the standard, the leader is checking to ensure problems are being properly escalated. He is using compliance with the standard as an indicator. If the leader discovers the standard is not being followed during his check, he is REALLY seeing that the problem has been worked around rather than being raised when it first occurred. Thus, the "problem" the leader is checking for is a breakdown in the escalation and problem solving process. This is a subtle point, but it is the difference between checking for COMPLIANCE (which really doesn't work very well) and checking for CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENT, which is the entire point. Thanks for reading my stuff! :P Mark Right on!
The whole idea is to build the checks into the work itself, and get to the point where it is self-auditing – any problem is immediately flagged and triggers a response.

That, in turn, takes the leader standard work to another level. Instead of checking compliance with the standard, the leader is checking to ensure problems are being properly escalated. He is using compliance with the standard as an indicator.

If the leader discovers the standard is not being followed during his check, he is REALLY seeing that the problem has been worked around rather than being raised when it first occurred.

Thus, the “problem” the leader is checking for is a breakdown in the escalation and problem solving process. This is a subtle point, but it is the difference between checking for COMPLIANCE (which really doesn’t work very well) and checking for CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENT, which is the entire point.

Thanks for reading my stuff!
:P

Mark

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